On this day 10 years ago, Microsoft acquired #Minecraft developer Mojang for US$2.5 billion.
https://minecraft.wiki/w/Mojang_Studios#History

In a blog post announcing the purchase, Owen Jones wrote: “Everything is going to be OK. <3”
http://web.archive.org/web/20140915131835/https://mojang.com/2014/09/yes-were-being-bought-by-microsoft/

Ten years later, Mojang now has been part of Microsoft almost twice as long as it has been independent.

It’s interesting to look back at the original announcement video from Xbox as well:
https://youtu.be/lXNWchwDiG8

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5 points

To be fair, Bedrock replaced a lot of stilted, proprietary console versions of the game. It doesn’t stack up against Java, but it’s the best version on every platform that doesn’t have Java as an option.

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The legacy console editions were far better than Bedrock imo. They were actually made for a console instead of porting a mobile version to console

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Nintendo Switch Edition was absolutely my favorite, and now you can only play it if you had a copy before they took it off the marketplace.

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Apparently the Switch version runs so shity on the Switch, people hacked the Switch and put Linux on it and ran the game in the emulator (that Nintendo seems to hate) which had better performance than running natively in the Switch OS. Maybe that’s more of a knock against Nintendo however.

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Every platform that doesn’t have Java? So like none of them??

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@burgersc12 @aeronmelon Java may launch on pretty much any platform, but try running the Java version on any low end hardware, on base model consoles, on older smartphones, performance will absolutely tank

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